Why Photography Matters #3

Especially Now

We live in a time of constant input.
The moment there's silence, we reach for our phones.
A message, an update, a headline.

The mind rarely rests.

But photography asks something else of us.

It doesn’t demand attention –
it invites it.

When I have a camera in my hand, I see more.
I notice the way the light bends around a window frame.
The crack in a wall. A shadow that looks like memory.

I move slower.
I look longer.

In a world where speed is default, photography is a pause.
A way to return to the present.

Not to capture it.
Just to be in it.

Salzburg, Austria 2024